[HPforGrownups] The "Missing 24-hours" - an alternative take

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 42415

Ali suggested that Harry and Hagrid might have used a Time Turner during the Missing 24 Hours:
  What if for Harry and Hagrid that 24-hour period does not exist? So 
  far we have seen a Time Turner take its users backwards. This opens 
  up the possibility of them going forwards as well. Dumbledore orders Hagrid to get Harry, turn the Time Turner forward 
  by 24 Hours and then meet him in Privet Drive. [snip part about meeting McGonagall on his way out and telling her that his orders were to get Harry and to take him to Privet Dr.]

Harry and Hagrid would then not exist for this 24 hours period. It 
takes Harry out of a dangerous period of time whilst Dumbledore can 
be setting up his protection.  

A clever idea, but I believe it cannot work.  The Time Turner might theoretically have the ability to take a person to the future (though Hermione states that she only used it to go backwards and repeat hours) but it does not mean that the person no longer exists in the present.  The effect of the Time-Turner is that for the period of time that the Time-Turner is being used, for example, 9-midnight at the end of PoA, the person who used the Time-Turner has a double existence, as shown by the fact that Harry and Hermione 1 saw Harry2 across the lake casting the Patronus, and HH2 saw everything HH1 did.  So if Hagrid used a Time-Turner to take himself and Harry to the future (and I'm not sure how this would work based on the principles we've seen used in PoA) there would be two Harrys and Hagrid's during that period.  The Time-Turner principles we've seen would not allow Harry and Hagrid to skip over time.  (For that matter, if it works going forward the same way it works going backward, turning it forward would simply create Hagrid/Harry2 at that moment who would lead parallel lives with Hagrid/Harry1 for the period of time the Time-Turner had been set for, then merge again at the end of that period.)

Debbie
who really needs a Time-Turner these days


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